Benjy and the Barking Bird

by Margaret Bloy Graham

Book Overview

When Aunt Sarah brings her barking parrot for a visit, Benjy the dog feels terribly unwanted. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060220791
• ISBN13: 9780060220792
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 31 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Favorite childhood book

Thanks for the quick shipping on this used book. I was so excited to find it as it is out of print. I found a copy in a drs. waiting office and remembered reading it in grade school. Thanks for the quick ship.

Benjy is jealous....

In this story by Graham, author of the classic "Harry the dirty dog" books, Benjy is a friendly mixed breed family dog who feels jealous when Aunt Sarah bring her parrot Tilly to visit. Benjy does something not very nice when jealousy rears it's ugly head, but he quickly learns the painful consequences of his actions. Told in the dog's perspective, Benjy is a good book to teach children the wrong, then right ways to handle jealously. Though not as good as the Harry books, I'd still recommend Benjy to children up to 8. 4 stars.